Word: dolls
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Doll & Tears. In one morning, Shirley Temple's crony and hero, Tap Dancer Bill Robinson, who was in The Little Colonel and The Littlest Rebel, taught her a soft-shoe number, a waltz clog and three tap routines. She learned them without looking at him, by listening to his feet. She appreciates the show-business slogan, "The show must go on" so thoroughly that it serves to repress her reactions to the bumps &; bangs sustained in acting. In Captain January she fell over a lamp and hurt her leg. On another occasion she slammed a door on her hand...
Mother spread consternation through the backwoods by announcing that she was about to have a baby. Stumped by the legal difficulties of adopting one, she bought a life-sized doll, swaddled it heavily, paraded it along the roads. She convinced a railway worker named Milton Trites that it was his. After that he bought the Bannisters groceries, the doll a crib. Mrs. Bannister told the Salvation Army worker that it was his by her daughter Marie, but he declined to contribute. This boom-time for the Bannisters ended sharply when the railway worker expressed a desire for a long, close...
...Arthur's idea of destroying the evidence was to break his .22 rifle over the railway track and throw it into the snow. The boys' tracks led over the river and through the woods to the Bannister house near Moncton. There police soon found Betty and the doll, as well as the mate to a mitten dropped beside the dead woman's body...
Chicago jeweler, and with a doll's torso added to complete the illusion, M. Martin's nimble digits became the legs of a ballet dancer, whirled through the pirouettes and entrechats, leaped, dipped, crumpled amid enthusiastic applause...
Just as there is something quite rugged about a sailor's wooden Virgin-doll, so is there a robust tang in this picture's sentiment, wherein Shirley weeps over just such a doll because Captain January gave it to her and she has been taken away from him. And the songs, "The Right Somebody to Love," "The Early Bird," and especially "At the Codfish Ball," are lilting gaiety